Health Beliefs of Patients with Coronary Heart Disease toward Secondary Prevention: The Health Beliefs Model as a Theoretical Framework Athbi Hassan Abdullah1,*, Hassan Huda Baker2 1Adult Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Kerbala, Iraq 2Adult Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Kerbala, Iraq *Corresponding author: Hassan Abdullah Athbi. Adult Nursing Department, College of Nursing, University of Kerbala, Iraq
Online published on 21 February, 2019. Abstract A descriptive study design was carried out in the outpatient clinic at Kerbala Center for Cardiac Disease and Surgery, from the period of December 2017 to December 2018, in order to evaluate the health beliefs about the secondary prevention among patients with CHD, and to predict the correlation between some socio-demographic variables and the health belief constructs. A non-probability sampling method consists of 64 patients was selected purposively based on the study criteria. A translated Arabic language version of cardiovascular health belief scale was used to predict and evaluate patient's health beliefs concerning to secondary prevention of CHD. The data were analyzes by using the program of statistical package of social sciences (SPSS) Version 23. Both descriptive and inferential statistical analysis approaches were used in order to analyze and assess the results of the study, a p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Out of 64 participants, 43.7% were female and 56.3% were male, with an overall mean age of 56.2±0.89 years. 98.4% of the patients were married and 37.5% were housewives. The total mean scores of perceived susceptibility was 2.6±0.50, perceived severity 2.4±0.48, perceived benefits 2.7±0.61, perceived barrier 2.5±0.35, the overall mean score of HBM constructs 2.6±0.26. Top Keywords Secondary Prevention, Coronary Heart Disease, Health Beliefs Model. Top |